The cellular life cycle ... scientists who received Nobel Prizes for cell cycle research used yeast as the subject of their investigations. The eukaryotic cell cycle includes four phases necessary ...

The proton gradients that power respiration are as universal ... the evolution of complex eukaryotic (nucleated) cells, which arose just once in 4 billion years of evolution.

You know when you hear somebody start a sentence with, "There are two kinds of people..." and you think to yourself "Oh boy, ...

In the 1960s and ’70s, the American biologist Lynn Margulis (1938–2011) championed the idea that certain compartments within eukaryotic cells had evolved from once free-living bacteria. Fueled by the ...

Parasitic infections pose challenges to creating effective therapies because these microorganisms are eukaryotic, like the humans and animals that they infect. Additionally, species like Toxoplasma ...